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Proximity to maternity services and stillbirth risk
  1. Louise Parkera,
  2. Heather O Dickinsona,
  3. Tony Morton-Jonesb
  1. aDepartment of Child Health, University of Newcastle, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Queen Victoria Road, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 4LP, UK, bDepartment of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Lancaster, Lancaster LA1 4YF, UK
  1. Dr Dickinson email: heather.dickinson{at}ncl.ac.uk

Abstract

A study of all 77 995 live births and 1234 stillbirths to mothers living in West Cumbria from 1950 to 1989 found no significant increase in stillbirth risk with distance of mother's residence from the first or second nearest maternity services, after allowing for year of birth, father's social class, and birth order.

  • stillbirth risk
  • maternity services
  • epidemiology

https://doi.org/10.1136/fn.82.2.F167

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